5 PowerPoint Hacks to Make You More Productive
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of your day in PowerPoint, creating your own slides or editing slides for others. So why not be as productive and efficient as possible?…
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PowerPoint Ideas and Tips: Turn a Boring Agenda Slide into an Awesome Agenda Slide
A lot of PowerPoint decks will include an agenda slide. As one of your first slides, this will set the tone for the meeting or presentation, so it really needs to “hook” your audience with some visual appeal.…
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PowerPoint Ideas and Tips: Creative Ways to Make Images More Impactful Using Shapes and Size
You probably use a lot of images in your PowerPoint decks, but are they as impactful as they could be? Using some simple tricks, you can really take your images to the next level.…
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PowerPoint Ideas and Tips: Transform Tired Tables into Top-Notch Tables
Tables are a great way to display information in PowerPoint. But sometimes you want a something with a little more “pow” than the styles you get out-of-the-box.…
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PowerPoint Ideas and Tips: 3 Designs to Try Instead of Plain Old Bullet Points
When people say “death by PowerPoint,” the first thing that comes to mind is tons of slides with boring ol’ bullet points. You can do better!…
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Make Data Entry Easier in Microsoft Excel with Dropdown Menus for Data Lookup/Validation
Data entry in Excel can be time-consuming and error prone, especially when multiple people are working on it. Using data validation to pull data from a pre-defined list can speed this up and reduce errors.…
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Create a Dynamics 365 Trial for the CRM/Customer Engagement Apps (Sales, Service, Field Service…)
A trial of Dynamics 365 can be a good way to explore features and functionality, and get hands-on practice. In this video, we’ll focus on setting up a 30-day free trial for the CRM/Customer Engagement Applications—namely Sales, Service, Field Service and Project Service.…
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How to Use PowerPoint Morph Transitions/Animations | 3 Ideas for Better Slides
In this video, we’ll see how to take your PowerPoint presentations from boring to brilliant using Microsoft PowerPoint’s morph transition (yes, it’s technically a transition and not an animation).…
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Tiny Technical Tutorials: Bite-Size Lessons for Today’s Tech
Welcome to the channel for Tiny Technical Tutorials, where we focus on bite-size lessons for today’s tech. Our videos are short, to the point, and help you actually DO something with the software you’re using.…
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The WIRED Guide to the Internet of Things
How many engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? Depends on whether or not that lightbulb is connected to Wi-Fi.
Lightbulbs, along with refrigerators, coffee makers, microwave ovens, baby monitors, security cameras, speakers, televisions, and thermostats have, in the past few decades, transformed from ordinary objects into conduits for the future.…
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Everything You Need To Know About Crispr Gene Editing
IN THE EARLY days of gene editing, biologists had a molecular tool kit that was somewhat akin to a printing press. Which is to say, altering DNA was a messy, labor-intensive process of loading genes onto viruses bound for target cells.…
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Net Neutrality: Here’s Everything You Need To Know
Net neutrality is the idea that internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon should treat all content flowing through their cables and cell towers equally. That means they shouldn’t be able to slide some data into “fast lanes” while blocking or otherwise discriminating against other material.…
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Robots
Modern robots are not unlike toddlers: It’s hilarious to watch them fall over, but deep down we know that if we laugh too hard, they might develop a complex and grow up to start World War III.…
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The WIRED Guide to Climate Change
The world is busted. For decades, scientists have carefully accumulated data that confirms what we hoped wasn’t true: The greenhouse gas emissions that have steadily spewed from cars and planes and factories, the technologies that powered a massive period of economic growth, came at an enormous cost to the planet’s health.…
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The WIRED Guide to Virtual Reality
All hail the headset. Or, alternatively, all ignore the headset, because it’s gonna be a dismal failure anyway.
That’s pretty much the conversation around virtual reality (VR), a technology by which computer-aided stimuli create the immersive illusion of being somewhere else—and a topic on which middle ground is about as scarce as affordable housing in Silicon Valley.…
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The WIRED Guide to Influencers
Much like trolls or the blockchain, the term influencer is one of those words that ubiquity has rendered meaningless. It is simultaneously an insult and an aspiration, the scourge of small business owners and the future of marketing, and a moniker for kids with middling social followings and megacelebrities alike.…
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Everything You Need to Know About Genetic Testing
Big secrets come in small packages. Take cells, like the ones shedding off the inside of your cheeks and into your saliva right now. These days it’s not that hard to crack them open, shake out the DNA coiled inside, and read the genetic code they contain.…
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Cyberwar: The Complete Guide
Not so long ago, stories about cyberwar started with scary hypotheticals: What if state-sponsored hackers were to launch widespread attacks that blacked out entire cities? Crippled banks and froze ATMs across a country?…
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The WIRED Guide to Aliens
It’s late on a clear night. You’re driving down a winding county highway—no headlights for miles—and you steer the car over to the shoulder. You get out, wait for the dome light to blink off, and actually look up at that sky for the first time in a while.…
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The WIRED Guide to Cannabis
Humanity just can’t make up its mind about cannabis. For thousands of years, humans have used the stuff as medicine or to travel on spiritual quests.…
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